Manchester United's hunt for a striker is becoming increasingly desperate, laughable really, and those desperate times call for desperate measures.
Perhaps the most desperate measure they possible could have done, short of asking Edinson Cavani if he fancies another year in Manchester (but there's still time for that yet), is to try and sign Marko Arnautovic. 14 goals in Serie A last season is nothing to be sniffed at but yet another 30 plus, stop-gap striker is hardly the dawn of a new age that was promised with the arrival of Erik ten Hag.
That won't be happening, now, as United have pulled their interest in the Bologna man after backlash from supporters as well as the Italian side's stiff asking price. The other striker the club had been interested in, Benjamin Sesko, has instead chosen the far more sensible career path of joining RB Leipzig instead. So it's back to the drawing board, with just over three weeks left of the window.
